Combined desk and seat.



.citizen of the United States, residing at Woodro -use in school-rooms in which desks arewary-4 UNITED STATES;

`Pirinrrr ormonrrnivinre.l LIPPARD, oir woonLEAr, NORTH CAROLINA.' COMBINED Dlslk AND SEAT.

speeiflcatien of Letters Patent. Application nea March 1,1904. serial in). 196,683.

LZZ whom, it may concern,.-

-Be it knownthat I, HENRY LIPPARD, al

leaf, in the -county of Rowan and `State ofv North Carolina, have invented newI and usei'qil Improvements ina Combined Desk and Seat, of which the following is a speciiication'.

land seat of new or improved constructionfor ranged in front of one another in rows. The

upright supports .which carry a" desk carry,

so the seat for the occupants of the desk next in front in the row; Y

The combined desk and seat of thepresent- :invention canl be made economically, while possessing durability, and -is believed to meet the requirement of such furniture morenearly V`thanany combined desk and seat heretofore ydevised.

Sometimes it is desired to have the school@ "furniture removable in order that the school-v lroom may befused for other purposes ormay (be properly swept, and the advantage 'of-re-y movability can be secured by means of the present invention without sacrificing the `ability to meet other requirements.

The new or improved desk and seat can be' made 4light in weight, which. is specially ada vantageous when the same is to beremov-f #part of this specification, illustrate what is lconsidered the best.. mode of carrying the in-- vention into effect, it being. understood that modifications, omissions', and additions can be made solong `as the substance of any one` f.: :4'5 .v

takeni or; more ofthe hereinafter-written claims is Figure `l is an end view of the new or improved desk and seat inwhat is considered its bestiorm, theseat being raised. Fig. 24

is a sectional view ina plane parallel4 with that of Fig. -l of the desk and seat with thef seat down, and Fig. 3 is a front view of thev same from the seat side with the s eat, down.)

The essentials of a'combined desk and seat? arethe upright supports, the table., vand the;

seat.; Below the tablev a'l there is shown a shelf l for receiving the pupils books and pas pers whenthese are not in use; but even if this shelf should beomitted there would still.

be a desk. shown also, there is a board c, which forms a back for the seat and closes the space between the `table aandshelii '1), and

pieces e and divided by the partitio'nf.

- The upright supports are made wide at the bottom `and-narrow at the top and are advantageously constructed in the form ofinclined pieces g and h, respectively, crossed near their upper ends, each support consisting of two such crossed pieces. The table eroverlies the tops of the upright supports, resting, as shown, upon the upper ends of the twocrosspieces g, andthe seat-back c overlaps the iront edges "of said supports, ,being secured, as shown, tothe upper ends of the two crosspiecesh. A l

The seat-,back c is best Vinclined slightly from the vertical, and the seat d, pivoted to the pieces g, is advantageously arranged with kthe axis of rotation in or so nearly `in the plane of the seateba'ck asthat the seat can be turned substantiallyvertical, (see Fig. 1 and consequently not impede vthe ingress and egress of persons into and out of the space between desks. Y v

To limit the downward motionof the'seat, stops are provided, which most ladvantageously. Compris@ the Shops1', located 011th@ pieces g below the heads vcf-of the seatd in vproximity to thepivots Z, and the stops fnt, 'located on thefpieces h above the heads lc, 1

(which are prolonged, as shown, behind the y the said space is further closed `by the end l This invention relates to a combined desky pivots Z,) the stops fm being separated from..I the pivots Z by a distance several times as great as that between the stops y' and-said pivots.' This 'arrangementwo stops relieves the pivots of stress .which theyl wouldl otherwise have'to bear, while at thesame-,time it is not necessary for the stops j to lbe so far,l

forward as to impede a persons-ingress into or his egress from the space between desks.

In order to render the desk self-supporting, the upright supports-at the bottom yare made to extend on one side of thepivots Z-namely,

fon thefront or. seat Side thereofftebeyond the middle' of the seat and on the otherside to beyond the middle of the table a, so that the weight of ay person sittingon the seatdor leaning Onthe table @will fall .Wthinthe .Sup-

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stand alone-that is, without being secured to the floor-whether the seat is occupied or not.

To prevent the desk and seat from sliding, spikes n, which are pointed enough to indent the floor, are placed in the bottoms of the upright supports in such manner as slightly to project, and in order that the said spikes n may take good hold on the floor they are arranged on the seat side of the pivots Z, the supports extending, as' said before, beyond the middle of the seat. A

To facilitate ingress of a person into and his egress from the space between desks, the seat is provided with lifting-spring o, (shown in Fig. 2 as a spiral tension-spring) and this spring is secured at one end to one of the upright supports at a point on the seat side of the pivots Z and at the other end to the corresponding seat-head lc at a point on the desk side of said pivots. When a person sitting on the seat rises, the spring at once raises the seat' and leaves the space between desks clear for the person to pass out.

In order more effectively to keep the upright supports in place, oppositely-inclined cross-braces are employed, and in order that they may interfere as little as possible with the comfort of the person sitting behind the desk a or of the person entering and leaving the space between said desk a and the next `desk in the row the said oppositelynclined cross-braces p and g are disposed in a plane parallel with the cross-pieces h of the upright supports, their lower ends being fastened to the front edges of the pieces h and their upper ends to the lower part of the seat-back c.

A horizontal cross-brace r may be provided instead of or in addition to the oppositely-inclined cross-braces p q. Being secured on the rear-edges of the pieces h, the cross-brace fr is in position to serve as a foot-rest.

The, space under the seat between the pivot-bearing cross-pieces g is best left open, as shown, so as not to impede the movements of the person in the space between desks.

lln order that the bottom of the upright supports when the latter are composed of inclined pieces crossed near their upper ends mayJ extend to beyond the middle of the seat'd on the seat side of the pivots Z and to beyond the middle of the table a on the desk side of said'pivots without extending farther than necessary, and so being in the way, the cross-piecesf1g 7L are inclined at different angles, the pivot-bearing cross pieces g being the more nearly horizontal and the other cros'sLpieces h being the more nearly vertical.

In use thev combined desks and seats are arranged in front of one another in rows. The occupant or occupants of the seat CZ enter the space between desks while the seat d is elevated and turn down the said seat to seat themselves thereon. Their weight holds down the seat against the influence of the each combined desk and seat can readily be lifted and moved to the place desired.

I claim as my invention or discovery-` 1. A combined desk and seat, composed of upright supports in the form of inclined pieces crossed near their upper ends so as to make the supports wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, a table carried by said sup orts, a seat hinged thereto, and opposite y-inclined braces connecting two of the cross-pieces and disposed in a plane inclined to the vertical and parallel with that ofithe two last-mentioned cross-pieces ,substantially as described.

2. A combined desk and scat, composed of a table, upright supports in the form of inclined pieces crossed near their upper ends, a seat pivoted to two cross-pieces and serving to interconnect them, and braces interconnecting the other two cross-pieces and fastened thereto below the seat-level, the space under the seat between the pivot-bearing cross-pieces being left open, substantially as described.

3. A combined desk and seat, composed of upright su 'ports in the form of pieces in# clined at iiferent angles and crossed near their upper ends so as to make the supports wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, a table carried by said supports, a seat-back secured to said supports, a seat pivoted to two of said pieces at a horizontal distance from the lower ends thereof about equal to the width of the seat, so that the weight of a person sitting on the seat falls within the supporting-base, stops arranged behind the front edges of the pivot-bearing pieces, so that when the seat is raised the stops do not impede a persons ingress and egress, and oppositely-inclined cross-braces connecting the other two cross-pieces and disposed in a plane parallel with that of the latter, the space under the seat between the pivot-bearing cross-pieces being left open, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY G. LIPPARD.

Witnesses:

GEO. B. WETMORE, J. D. HEATHMAN ICO IIO 

